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Tales of Gorluth I can be downloaded for free (23. Dec. 2015)
The action adventure game "Tales of Gorluth" which was honoured with the Amiga Games Award 2014 and developed by Patrick Nevian and Javier Alcani using Backbone, can be downloaded for free. Originally the game was distributed on CD and some residual copie...

Podcast: AmiCast 8 interviewed Dennis Boon (Sonnet Amiga project) (23. Dec. 2015)
In its eighth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Dennis Boon. With his project "Sonnet Amiga", which originally was announced by Elbox as "SharkPPC", he realized the Sonnet-7200 PCI board as PowerPC accelerator board for the Amiga...

Accelerator board: Vampire II for Amiga 600 can be preordered (23. Dec. 2015)
The Vampire is a FPGA-based accelerator board for the Amiga 600 (amiga-news.de reported). Now version II can be preordered. It is probably available from New Year's Eve on and is supposed to be faster as a 68060-processor with 80 MHz. Du...

Ralph Schmidt: Amiga Forever contains unlicensed copies of the Cyberstorm ROMs (22. Dec. 2015)
The emulator distribution Amiga Forever 2016, released in November, contains images of the CyberstormPPC ROMs to simplify the installation of AmigaOS 4 for the end user. As this fact was not mentioned in the official press releases, it only became kn...

Amiga Forever: Alleged SFS problem turned out to be user error (17. Dec. 2015)
In our reports about version 2016 of the emulation package Amiga Forever a problem was mentioned when using the Smart File System that had been reported by some users on the forums and was also observed in the tests for amiga-news.de. Thanks to the ext...

Cloanto: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Classic available for download (16. Dec. 2015)
Since version 2016, the emulation package Amiga Forever also supports the emulation of an Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC accelerator board. In order to install AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition "classic" to Amiga Forever, the operating system had to...

Amiga Forever: Version 2016.0.22.0 (2nd Update) (15. Dec. 2015)
Since today, an update to version 2016.0.22.0 of the emulation package Amiga Forever is available. As usual, existing installations can be updated using the Software Director. New, besides other enhancements, is an easier installation process for Amiga...

Retro 7-bit: external keyboard adapter Sum A234/CD32 in production (14. Dec. 2015)
Retro 7-bit announces that it started production if its new keyboard adapter Sum A234/CD32. The adapter will enable users to connect modern USB keyboards to the Amiga 2000, 3000, 4000 or CD32. The vendor is already offering an internal adapter called Sum ...

PDF-Magazine: Website for Amigaville (13. Dec. 2015)
After a while, the PDF-magazine Amigaville (amiga-news.de reported) could not be downloaded due to a high data volume. Therefore both issues, which have been published so far, are available on a separate website instead on Dropbox. Download: Amigavill...

Bulletin Board Systems: Death Row, Genetic-point, Spatula City (Update) (11. Dec. 2015)
The traditional bulletin board systems "Death Row" (running /X), "Genetic-point" and "Spatula City" (former Radiance, Sceptic and Analog HQ) can be accessed via Internet using Telnet clients or a terminal programm in conjunction with the telser.device. ...

PDF-Magazine: Amigaville, issue 2 (08. Dec. 2015)
The second issue of Amigaville, "The home of all things Amiga" (subhead), provides news, reviews to old games, an essay about the loss of "fun" and "humor" in modern computer games and a column. The magazine also includes reprintes of full-page games adve...

Hollywood application: MiniHollyEdit NG 0.3 (06. Dec. 2015)
MiniHollyEdit written by the French programmer 'ArtBlink' was an ARexx-based editor for the programming language Hollywood. Using MUI Royale, MiniHollyEdit NG is implemented in Hollywood itself. Today the download links (under the title link)...

Video: Egoshooter on an Amiga with "SharkPPC" (06. Dec. 2015)
With their project SonnetAmiga, the Polish developers of Sakura IT (available products: PCMCIA-SRAM-card, external disk drive) has put into practice the idea of a PowerPC exzension for Mediator-PCI-boards, which originally Elbox was going to. Unde...

AmigaOS 4: Review to Gorky 17 (English) (05. Dec. 2015)
Under the title link, in his blog, 'Epsilon' has tested the game "Gorky 17" which was ported by Hyperion for AmigaOS 4 - as usual with many pictures. ...

Tank shooter: Tanks Furry 0.3a (playable preview) (02. Dec. 2015)
After Alter Ego und Chase, the third Amiga game is available developed for the Polish "RetroKomp GameDev Compo". In "Tanks Furry" you have to hit the opponent's tanks before they succedd in destroying the own base: According the developer...

Individual Computers: New versions of the accelerator boards ACA1232 and ACA1233 (02. Dec. 2015)
For three years, the accelerator board ACA1232 is available. Meanwhile there are two new top models with 68030 processors in very small quantity: The ACA1232 with 50 MHz and the ACA1233 with 55,55 MHz. "Both cards use a new SD-Ram controller ...

AROS: ALSA audio driver finished (29. Nov. 2015)
After the FUSE file system, Krzysztof Śmiechowicz has finished another bounty project, which provides the ALSA audio driver for the Linux-hosted AROS-version. For the bounty project 200 US-Dollar was donated. ...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2016 and C64 Forever 2016 available (3rd Update) (29. Nov. 2015)
Cloanto has released a new version of its emulation software package Amiga Forever (screenshot). Besides high-DPI display support as well as updated AmiKit and AROS installations (screenshot), changes include the PowerPC emulation introduced with WinUAE ...

Series of articles: The 68000 Wars, part 3 and 4 (28. Nov. 2015)
In his blog, the author Jimmy Maher (The Future Was Here - The Commodore Amiga) publishes the series of articles "The 68000 Wars", which is about the history of the Amiga and of the Atari. The third part We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up is about the ...

Point'n Click Adventure: The Secret of Middle City on AMIStore (24. Nov. 2015)
After a development of 15 years, recently the the point'n click adventure "The Secret of Middle City" has been finished and now is available on AMIstore for about 10 Euro. According to the maintainer, this is a "non-exclusive" licence for the distrib...